Quotes

	The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. --Henry Ward Beecher

	There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog. --Konrad Z. Lorenz

	Buy a pup and your money will buy you love unflinching. --Rudyard Kipling

	The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. --George G. Vest

	No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does. --Christopher Morley

	Love me, love my dog. -- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

	The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. --Samuel Butler

	I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you? --Inscription on a dog collar given by Alexander Pope to his Royal Highness

	We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet, and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made alliance with us. --Maurice Maeterlinck

	Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as in other dogs. --Jerome K. Jerome

	The more I see of men, the better I like my dog. --Frederick the Great

	The best thing about a man is his dog. --French proverb

	If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in your face, you should go home and examine your conscience. --Woodrow Wilson

	A Pekinese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion. --A.A. Milne

	Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or another. --Robert Benchley

	Dogs love company. They place it first in their short list of needs. --J.R. Ackerley

	If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog. --George Bernard Shaw

	All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. --Franz Kafka

	I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. --Will Rogers

	I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts. --John Steinbeck

	Histories are more full of examples of the fidelities of dogs than of friends. --Alexander Pope

	My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip. --Craig Shoemaker

	Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. --Max Eastman

	Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; They are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. --Henry Beston

	You think dogs will not be in Heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. --Robert Louis Stevenson

	Epitaph to a Newfoundland Dog Near this spot are deposited the Remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May 1803, and died at Newstead Abbey, Nov. 18, 1808. --George Gorden, Lord Byron

	Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx.

	Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. --Henry Wheeler Shaw

	Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. --Roger Caras

	The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. --Gandhi

	To err is human, to forgive, canine. --Unknown

	In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. -- Edward Hoagland

	Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. -- Milan Kundera

	To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. -- Aldous Huxley

	Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. -- Roger Caras

	Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. -- Dave Barry

	I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans, "Troubles with Bird Dogs"